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My last period of service was [a] 3 months tour. I was drafted in the state troops at Pittsboro, marched to the general rendezvous [at] Ramsay’s Mills and from there to the ____ to be ready for a call. The first excursion was to meet Col. [David] Fanning, a noted Tory. News arrived at about midnight that the Colonel had plundered Hillsboro [on September 12, 1781] and was making his way for the east now. That he would be at Cane Creek better known by the name of Lindly Creek. Soon we started and met them. We had a desperate encounter – for a few moments. [Almost two lines scratched out here. It includes the phrase “they broke our line…”]